Fort Breendonk (Dutch: Fort van Breendonk, French: Fort de Breendonk) is a former military installation at Breendonk, near Mechelen, in Belgium which served...

From the 20th century on, it was best known for its fortification at Fort Breendonk, built in 1909. It was judged that Antwerp, being continental Europe's...

died in captivity. The Germans requisitioned the former Belgian army Fort Breendonk, near Mechelen, which was used for torture and interrogation of political...

be seen at the Gross-Rosen, and Theresienstadt camps, as well as at Fort Breendonk in Belgium. At the Monowitz camp (also known as Auschwitz III), the...

German officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) who served as commandant of Fort Breendonk, a Nazi prison camp in German-occupied Belgium during World War II....

Gefen. p. 309. ISBN 9789652292797. Cruise Travel. August 1982. p. 44. Fort Breendonk (Nazi Camp): Pictorial essay. Mentions local torture chamber via Internet...

commandant in Dachau (1933–1939), went on to become camp commandant at Fort Breendonk, Belgium SS-Sturmbannführer Robert Erspenmüller, first warden of the...

(1917-1977): Franklemon was arrested on August 4, 1943, and imprisoned at Fort Breendonk. On March 14, 1944, a German court-martial sentenced him to six years...

free. Fort Breendonk was used by the Nazis as a political prison camp. It is kept in its World War II state and is open for visiting. Fort Breendonk and...

storage. Fort Breendonk was used as a transit camp for deportation to Germany. In Fort Breendonk (ca. 300) executions were carried out. Currently, Fort Breendonk...

Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo at Fort Breendonk, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived...

German administration established a prison camp in Fort Breendonk, a former Belgian military fort. Inmates were largely political prisoners, though a...

subject of the song De Brug van Willebroek by Wannes Van de Velde. Fort Breendonk "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved...

London Rue de Richelieu, Paris Montparnasse Cemetery Theresienbad Fort Breendonk Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris (in particular the Haut-de-jardin...

the time Allied forces liberated the camps. The former Belgian army fort at Breendonk, near Mechelen, was requisitioned by the Nazis and used for detainment...

used for the transport of Belgian Jews to camps in Eastern Europe. The openings were covered in barbed wire. This example is preserved at Fort Breendonk....

services with auxiliary staff and provided guards for the prison camp at Fort Breendonk. It also published a newspaper entitled De SS Man. The group claimed...

openings were covered in barbed wire. This example is preserved at Fort Breendonk. Interior of a covered goods wagon used to transport Jews and other...

of Amnesty International. Joseph Goldenberg Arrested in early 1942 Fort Breendonk concentration camp from September 1942 to March 1943, died there on...

Army. In 1940, the German army requisitioned a former Belgian army fort at Breendonk and transformed it into an Anhaltelager or prison camp. Initially...

Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle. Giering ordered Wenzel to be moved to Fort Breendonk where he was tortured and decided to cooperate with the Abwehr, betraying...

Resistance movement. In early 1943, he was arrested and interned in the Fort Breendonk concentration camp, where he was executed in late November 1943. In...

fighter. He was born in Ixelles on 23 May 1924 and died on 10 May 1943 in Fort Breendonk. He was hanged by the Germans for assassinating the Belgian collaborator...

1920 Tour de France. He was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Fort Breendonk and Buchenwald concentration camp before dying in Mittelbau-Dora concentration...

Jospa's husband Herz Jospa was arrested in June 1943, detained in Fort Breendonk, then deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in May 1944. She thought...

Schmitt born 10 November 1902. Commandant of the concentration camp Fort Breendonk and the SS-Sammellager Mecheln. Tried and Executed 9 August 1950 44291...

Simon Gronowski Gronowski at the 8 May 2022 commemoration at Fort Breendonk Born (1931-10-12) October 12, 1931 (age 92) Brussels, Belgium Alma mater Free...

(conservateur du Mémorial national du fort de Breendonk), Le projet pédagogique du Mémorial National du Fort de Breendonk, p. 1. John Nichol and Tony Rennell...

wrote about both her (and her friend, Miriam Sokol)'s imprisonment in Fort Breendonk. Elizabeth Depelsenaire (née Sneyers) grew up in the bourgeois milieu...

France and Netherlands in 1940, Natzweiler-Struthof, Gross Rosen and Fort Breendonk, in addition to a number of smaller camps, were set up to house intellectuals...